Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even Esperanto can be tinged with politics in the strange propagandist twilight that has settled over Europe's chanceries. There really is ground for the belief that the Germans have been back of the agitation for Esperanto, in a desire to make an indirect attack on French and British influence through the French and English tongues. Also the Soviets recently attempted to compel the Russian Esperantists to use their language to further Bolshevist doctrines...
...March 4, 1921, Woodrow Wilson rode to the Capitol to surrender the reins of office, a very sick man. Since then his life has been lived at Washington but out of the spotlight of publicity. Now and again he emerged from the twilight of his privacy in some public act, but in the main he has kept out of the public...
...vessels, and found that, like Pandora's box, they contained many troubles and a ray of hope. There were only about 20 bids. Of that number, four at first sight seemed fairly satisfactory; about the same number, as Chairman Lasker expressed it, were in "the twilight zone"; there was one freak bid of $1,000,000,000 for the entire fleet; and a dozen or so bids that seemed manifestly unsatisfactory...
...Twilight sleep," popular name for the use of scopalamine as an anaesthetic during childbirth-a method which fell into disfavor after it was found to have a detrimental effect on babies thus born-is still used regularly in a modified form in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and some other hospitals. Dr. John 0. Polak has used it as a routine procedure in labor, with a resulting infant mortality for 1,000 cases of but 2.5 per cent, about one-fifth of the average for other deliveries. It should, of course, be administered only in hospitals and under specially...
Late in the afternoon of his death, Delcassé went alone to the gardens of the Bishop's palace to hear the band. Heart attack came on. He retired to a secluded corner of the garden. Caretakers found his body soon after twilight...